Suitable unto this relation almost in all points is that of the Thorn at _Glassenbury_, and perhaps the daughter hereof; herein our endeavours as yet have not attained satisfaction, and cannot therefore enlarge. Thus much in general we may observe, that strange effects are naturally taken for miracles by weaker heads, and artificially improved to that apprehension by wiser. Certainly many precocious Trees, and such as spring in the Winter, may be found in most parts of _Europe_, and divers also in _England_. [SN: _Such a Thorn there is in_ Parham Park _in Suffolk, and elsewhere._] For most Trees do begin to sprout in the Fall of the leaf or Autumn, and if not kept back by cold and outward causes, would leaf about the Solstice. Now if it happen that any be so strongly constituted, as to make this good against the power of Winter, they may produce their leaves or blossoms in that season. And perform that in some singles, which is observable in whole kinds; as in _Ivy_, which blossoms and bears at least twice a year, and once in the Winter; as also in _Furz_, which flowereth in that season. 5. That _ferrum Equinum_, or _Sferra Cavallo_ hath a vertue attractive of Iron, a power to break locks, and draw off the shoes of a Horse that passeth over it; whether you take it for one kind of _Securidaca_, or will also take in _Lunaria_, we know it to be false: and cannot but wonder at _Mathiolus_, who upon a parallel in _Pliny_ was staggered into suspension. Who notwithstanding in the imputed vertue to open things, close and shut up, could laugh himself at that promise from the herb _Æthiopis_ or _Æthiopian_ mullen; and condemn the judgment of _Scipio_, who having such a picklock, would spend so many years in battering the Gates of _Carthage_. Which strange and Magical conceit, seems to have no deeper root in reason, then the figure of its seed; for therein indeed it somewhat resembles a Horse-shoe; which notwithstanding _Baptista Porta_ hath thought too low a signification, and raised the same unto a Lunary representation. [Sidenote: _How Beer and Wine come to be spoiled by Lightning._]